Sound Waves Quiz

1. Do Now: 
- 10 minutes to study for the quiz using your notecards
- leave your 2 homework/classwork assignments out on your desk from this week, and your notecards.  I will check them during the quiz

2. Login to schoology and take the Sound Waves Quiz.


3. Take Mr. Gonzalez's survey. 


4. Create your own comic strip to show how sound waves travel through particles!
- Click on create new strip (red button on the right side of the page)


5. Read about the Colossal Squid (yes that's it's real name).

Waves Day 3

Sound Waves

A photo of an F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet breaking the sound barrier

Sound waves from a stationary object

Sound waves stack together when a jet goes supersonic, causing the characteristic sonic boom

Objective:

What: SWBAT describe longitudinal waves in the form of a sound wave.

How: Students will complete a comic strip demonstrating how a longitudinal wave moves through particles in the form of a sound wave.

Why: To be critical thinkers, we need to connect our knowledge of waves to the ways that they move through the world we see.  

Agenda

1. Do Now

2. Breaking the speed of sound

3. Bill Nye Sound

4. Sound Notes

5. Sound Reading

6. Comic Strip

7. HW Vocab Note Cards DUE FRIDAY

Waves Day 2

Electromagnetic vs. Mechanical Waves

both transfer energy in their own way

Objective:

What: SWBAT describe differences between Electromagnetic and Mechanical waves.

How: Students will complete an exit slip where they list examples of mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves and characteristics of each.

Why: To be critical thinkers we need to understand these two types of waves and the ways that they transfer energy.  

Agenda

1. Do Now

2. Waves video here

3. Bitesize intro to Waves

4. Bitesize on Electromagnetic Waves

5. How microwaves work

6. Bitesize intro to waves reading

7. Brainpop Waves
8. Bitesize Test
9. Exit Slip